| GM stock hits two-year high above $32 |
May 3rd, 2013 |
Washington - Shares in General Motors Co. closed Friday at their highest level in nearly two years on better-than-expected earnings and a jump in employment figures.The Detroit automaker's stock rose 3 percent to $32.10, up $0.94 a share, in trading on the New York Stock Exchange. That's the highest closing price since May 4, 2011, when it closed at $33.04.Since January, the U.S. ...
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| MIT envisions future of talking cars that can plan drivers day |
May 3rd, 2013 |
Computerworld - You wake up in the morning and your robot starts the coffee maker and then sends the daily calendar to the car. The car then works on a plan that makes sure you keep to that schedule. It's not a scene out of a sci-fi movie. It's the vision of MIT researchers who are developing systems to help people collaborate with robots and vehicles. "In general, everything ...
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| Deals of the Week Nissan Murano Ford Escape Cadillac CTS and Fiat 500 |
May 3rd, 2013 |
Deals of the Week likes to go looking for the sales sweeteners driving sales numbers and, yes, sales were up in April and so were the deals behind them.New vehicles flew off dealer lots in April, with sales up 8.9 per cent on the month after three slow months to start the year. If April's rate carries on for the rest of 2013, Canadians will buy an all-time high of 1.74 million vehicles, ...
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| California to be home of first Chinese auto firm in United States |
May 3rd, 2013 |
LANCASTER, California -- The first Chinese-owned vehicle manufacturer in the United States unveiled ambitious plans Wednesday to eventually build as many as 1,000 plug-in electric buses a year at a refurbished RV manufacturing plant in a wind-swept, sage-dotted corner of the Mojave ...
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| Economy pressuring young drivers out of cars |
May 3rd, 2013 |
More young Americans, 16-34, are choosing to take public transit, walk or decide not to spend the money for an auto, and that has car companies concerned. NBC's Chris Clackum ...
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| General Motors Fighting climate change good for business |
May 3rd, 2013 |
Solar panels blanket the roof of a General Motors plant in White Marsh, Md. plant near Baltimore. The solar panels, one of GM's efforts to push for energy efficiency, were generated nearly 6 percent of the facility's electric consumption in ...
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| Crackle NewFront Seinfelds Comedians in Cars Re-Upped Joe Dirt Sequel Announced |
May 3rd, 2013 |
. Crackle is one of the last of leading digital companies to be presenting before ad buyers at an IAB-sponsored week of presentations called "NewFronts." The upstart is stressing its commitment to original programming. ...
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| A Road Built Out Of Solar Panels To Charge Our Cars |
May 3rd, 2013 |
There are a lot of roads just sitting there in the sun, doing nothing with all that energy. Why not use them to collect it? All it takes is a massive re-engineering of what a solar panel can ...
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| Teen Driver Deaths Up as Summer Approaches |
May 3rd, 2013 |
As the nation heads into the deadliest driving period of the year for teens -- between Memorial Day and Labor Day -- we do so amid some unsettling statistics: Teen driving deaths are on track to increase for the second consecutive year following eight years of decline. That's according to a study from the Governors Highway Safety Association, which shows that deaths were up 19% among 16- and ...
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| U.S. road deaths jump 5.3 in 12 to highest number since 2008 |
May 3rd, 2013 |
Washington - Traffic deaths rose 5.3 percent in 2012, marking the highest number of people to die on U.S. roads since 2008.The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said in a report released Friday that its preliminary tally found 34,080 people died in traffic crashes, up 5.3 percent and the first increase in more than seven years.NHTSA said road deaths rose in all four quarters of 2012 ...
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